Car-fender.



No. 882,506. 8 PATENTED MAR. 17, 1908.

A. W. SHANK.

OAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FIL'ED JUNE 19, 1907.

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UNITED STATES lIIGAN. .ON E-EIGHTH TO ERNEST BATTISHILL. ()l DETROIT,

rntrENT OFFICE.

ASSIGNOR ()l! ONll-FOlllt'lll TO OSlAlt PLANT, AND ONE-EIGHTH MIFHIGAN.

CAR-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 17, 1908.

Application filed June 19, 1907. Serial No. 379,728.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that l, AUeUsTUs W. SHANK, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of" Wayne and State of Michigan,

ders, of which the f lowing is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Street car fenders are usually hung at an interval above the trak and are adapted to be tripped or released by the motorman when an object is encountered, so as to fall of their own weight onto the rails or pavement, or .they are provided with means automatically lowering them when they strike an obstacle.

This invention relates to a car fender which isnormally clear of the track and is positively moved down by the motorman so as to slide on the track or pavement when the emergency brake is applied.

The invention consists in inafter set forth, and more particularly ointed out in the appended claims 7 As herein illustrated, he device is shown mounted on acar equipped with a standard air brakes stem.

In the rawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation of the forward end of a car equi ped with a fender embodying the features 0 the invention, showing the fender in normal position. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the fem er 3 is a view of a modified form of the device.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the forward end or platform of a car having the usual brake stand 2 in which an air-brake handle 3 is operatively secured. This handle controls the usual three-way valve so that when thrown; around to the extreme position shown by the dotted outline, the emergency brake of the car is applied.

A fender of the usual openwork construc tion is horizontally balanced or ivoted by pivot pins 4 on hangers 5 securenf to the car ody, its longitudinal frame members 6 constituting levers of the first class whose forward arms carry the major part of the weight of the fender. Springs 7 in compression between the rear arms 8 of the levers and the car body counterbalance the weight. of the fender and maintain the fender 1n its normal osition. A counterbalance weight may also e used in place of the springs. A bent have invented certain new and useful 1m rovements 1n Car-Fem.

the matters here- I or hell crank lever 9 is pivoted or fulcrumed on the car platform near the base of the brake stand, and projects through an aperture in the platform. Its lower arm ,10 extends back is operative y connected by a link 11. The upper end 12 of the lever is adapted to be engaged by the air-brake handle 3 when the latter is being turned to apply brake, and the parts are so dis ranged that the front bar 13 o the fender is close to or riding on the rails when the air is applied. Upon the release of the air, the counterbalance returns the fender to place.

When a standard fender of approved de: sign is already attached to a car, a modified form of this invention may be a plied as shown in Fig. 3, consisting mere y of the front bow 14 and sidemembers 15 which extend around the main fender and are pivoted to the car and counterbalanced and o erated as before. In such case, it is prefera le that the bow be made of fran ible material, such which will not injure a person, but will act as a buffer when a wagon or the like is' hit, that will yield and break, if necessary, and thus shield the main body of the fender from permanent injury, the bow being readily removed and replaced, as it is light and simple in structure.

When'an object or person suddenly appears on the track close to a car, the first, almost instinctive movement of the motorthe emergency and to shut As his'hands are always on the controller or'throttle and on the brake handle, his first action lowers the fender so that there is no possibility of. the fender riding upon and injuring the obstacle or person.

The fender is ordinarily out of the way and does not interfere or load the ordinary controlling devices of the car and does not require an unusual or extra motion or action of the motorman to set it. In cable cars or the like, where an emergency friction brake is used, thedevice may be adjusted to be operated by the emergency lever. may be tilted forward by proper connection with means 0 erated by compressed air which is contro led by the emergency brake lever in unison with the air brake system itself.

Obviously, the design and details of conman is to apply off the power.

the emergency osed and ar' arallel to the lever 8 to which it as a strip of wood or the like, suitably padded,

The frame struction may "be varied without departing from the spirit of the invention, and I do not car, a lever, Whose load arm .is substantially parallel to the frame 'an'd'whose power arm is operativelyengaged by said member when the brake is therear end 0 the lever. 4 I 2. In a car havinga brake and a manually operated lever, adapted to control the brake, pivoted on the earoperator, a normally horizontal counterbalancedfender ivotally supported at the forward end of t tiltthe fender forward, fulcrumed on. the car, whosefload arm is coupled by a link to the rear of the fender, and whose power arm passes through the planeof rotation of the rake lever, and-isengaged-by said brake lever when the brakeisapplied I 1 3. .In a car having"a manually operated brake controlling" lever, a fender pivotally the frame and the load arm'of supported at the forward end of the. car

above the car-track, eounterbalanoing means adapted to .hold the fender normally in a normally horizontal on the forward platform; a -manual ated brake-controlling levenpivoted thereon,

horizontalposition, a lever operatively en'- gag ed by the brake lever when the brake is applied, pivoted to the car articulated to the fender and adapted to tilt the fender for- .Ward when engaged the brake lever.

v4. In "a carhaving a manually operated brake controlling lever mounted on the car platform in reach of the operator,a fender pivotally supportedbetween its ends in 'a position'below the lat,- form and above the track, a bell crank. ever pivoted to the platform whose horizontal arm is substantially parallel to. theufender' and Whose upright the brake is applied, and a link-articulating the fender. v v

5-. In a .car having an upnghtbrake-stand lyopera plied, and a link articulating" front'within reachof the e car, and. a lever adapted to ported-by side members arm lies in the path of'the brake-lever andis depressed thereby when a fender whose lon pivotal'ly supported etween, their ends" betain'it normally lll '8. horizontal o'sition, a bell-crank lever pivoted nea'r'the ase of the stand, whose lower ,rearwardarm below the platform is substantially parallel to the longitudinal fender members, and whose upright brake controlling lever when the brake is applied, and -a' rigid link articulating the end of the lower. arm and the rear end of the fender, adapted to return the lever to its initial balance, when the brake 'is released by return .of the hand lever,

I 6. "In a car having a brake, manually operated means'for controlling it, and a fender whose lower margin is at an interval-above thetra'ck, an-auxiliary fender comprising a bow of resilient, frangible material, conforming substantially to the car, adapted to close the interval when tilted forward, and means to tilt the frame operated by the brake controlling means;

7. Ina car having operated lever for controlling it, and a main fender whose'lower margin is at an interval above the track, an

beradapted to normally maintain said bow in substantially horizontal I alinement with between the side members andbrake-cone trolling lever adapted toswingthe bar into gin and track when the brake lever is moved to set thebrake'.

I-nhtestimony whereof I afiix l inpresence of two witnesses. r

'AUeUs Us Wr'SHANK. I Witnesses; i

neath then-car above the track, with their rear portions extending beneath the plat form," a counterbalance en ga ing'the fender in rear of the pivot s'upporta apted to mainextendingvthroug'h the platform,

arm is engaged'andthrown forward'byv the fender: margin, sup-- pivotedvbeneaththe I a brake, a manually auxiliary fender comprising a bow of resilient, frangible material conforming substantially to the fender margin rotatably supported sidemembers sew cured to thebow' and a counterbalance-memthe margin, and a 'link-and-lever connection;

my signature 1 itudinal .members are position through the medium of:the counterthe interval between the mainfender, mar:- 

